Pen and pencil case



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

GEORGE E. FREW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PEN AND PENCIL CASE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28,664, dated June 12, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. FREW, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pen and Pencil Case; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is an external view of my invention in a closed state. Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sections of the same in an extended state. Fig 4 is a transverse section of the same, taken in the line 00 00, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a pen and pencil case that may be folded or closed within a small space and admit of being extended sufficiently to be of convenient length when used either with the pen orpenoil, and also to have the case constructed in such a way that it may be very readily manipulated-that is to say, opened and closed to be used either with the pen or pencil.

The invention consists in the employment or use of sliding tubes having endless chains attached to them and to the pencil-and pen slides, substantially as hereinafter described, whereby the desired end is attained.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a pencil-slide, which is fitted within a tube B and allowed to slide freely back and forth therein. The tube B is fitted within a tube 0, which has a longitudinal slot I) made in it. (See Fig. 3.) The tube b has also a longitudinal slot or made in it, as shown in Fig. 2.

The tube 0 has a tube 0' fitted on it, and to the latter an endless chainDis fitted on a guide 0, which is attached longitudinally to the tube 0. This endless chain is attached to the tube 0, as shown at cl, and a pin 8, which is attached to the pencil-slide A, is also attached to the chain D, as shown at f, the pin e passing through the slot a, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The tube 0 is encompassed by a tube E, and to the tubes B O a tube F is attached, which slides within E, the tube B working in O, and 0' working over 0 simultaneously with the tube F working in E, as will be understood by referring to Fig. 2. The tube F is attached at its inner end to the inner end of tube 0', and the front end of the latter is attached to the front end of tube B.

Between the tubes 0- and F a longitudinal semi-tube G is fitted. This semi-tube G has an endless chain H, fitted around a guide g. On the semi-tube G a pen-slide I is placed, and to this slide the chain H is attached, as shown at h. The chain is also attached-to the tube 0, as shown at i. The semi-tube G is encompassed by a tube J, which slides within the tube F.

From the above description it will be seen that by holding the tube E with one hand and shoving out the tube F with the other the endless chain D will be moved and the pencil-slide A shoved out from tube B when the tube F reaches the end of its movement, and when the pen is required to be used the slide J is shoved out and the endless chain II shoves out the pen-slide I. In order to close the whole case the slides are simply shoved inward by pressing the end of the case on a table or against the hand. It will be seen that when the pencil is used the case is shorter than when the pen is employed, as the latter requires that the tube J be shoved outward in order to shove the pen out from the case. In using a pencil, however, a long case is not required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the endless chains D H, tubes B C O E F G J, pen-slide I, and pencil-tube A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEO. E. FREW. Witnesses:

THos. EVANS, B. GIRoUX. 

